In a Kansas City Star editorial yesterday, Yael T. Abouhalkah posited the existence of a "good" Mayor Mark Funkhouser and a "bad" Mayor Mark Funkhouser: "The good Funkhouser is the one Kansas Citians thought they were electing in 2007, the one who was going to attack the city's financial ills," writes Abouhalkah. He never explicitly defines the "bad" Funkhouser, but he's the one who spends a lot of time on national television bitching about his wife's ejection from City Hall and suing the City
It's hard to write -- or even care -- about the reunion show of a band that you weren't around to see during its first run. But I'm glad I saw Mongol Beach Party get back to the jam after 15 years of dormancy, especially considering I came with zero personal expectations -- just the recommendation of people whose taste I trust. Cody Wyoming, for example, told me earlier in the week that MBP was one of three local bands that he would sneak out of the house to see when he was a kid (the other two
This just in: Today at 7 p.m. at Crown Center, four local bands with members aged under 18 will face off, battle-of-the-bands style for a 30-minute, 11 a.m. slot at Jiggle Jam this Sunday, May 24, and we know what that means. It means they'll get to skip church in the name of rock. It also means the winning band will get to tell the kids at school they got to play the same stage as They Might Be Giants. Which, given that TMBG was making its name when I was a kid, that probably won't exactly shak
I had heard that quirk poppers extraordinaire They Might Be Giants would be coming to Kansas City on Friday, May 22, to play their landmark, defining, Platinum-selling album Flood in its entirety, live.
That's the one with "Particle Man" and "Istanbul" on it -- inarguably the group's best-known songs. (Add songs like "Lucky Ball & Chain," "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Dead," and I say it's the only TMBG you really need, though more serious fans love the group's more recent work just as much.)
Author and minor television personality John Hodgman might best be known to your mom and dad as the charming portrayer of PC in Apple's funny, iconic Mac/PC advertisements, but you probably know him as The Daily Show's "Resident Expert" and the author of two totally unresearched, totally untrue almanacs of fake trivia: The Areas of My Expertise and its direct continuation (as proven by the page numbering), More Information Than You Require.
Hodgman also contributes to McSweeney's and edits
